Boost your Career with a CSM Certification
Boost your Career with a CSM Certification A CSM certification is an invaluable addition to your resume. But it’s more than just that! It can significantly help you with your professional life, and also greatly benefit the organization you work for. 9 ways getting a CSM certification can benefit your career Certified ScrumMasters earn […]
Five Ways You Can Use LinkedIn to Find a New Job
Five Immediate Ways You Can Use LinkedIn to Find a New Job! More than 95% of recruiters use LinkedIn to find talent, and there are currently more than 20 million open jobs available on the platform. However, if you struggle with making meaningful connections or closing opportunities using LinkedIn, you’re not alone. According to experts […]
5 Ways to Succeed in a Virtual Interview
Job hunting while the world is on stand-still can feel like running on a hamster wheel. You’re working as hard as you possibly can, and running non-stop, but you’re still getting nowhere. If you look at the numbers though, you’ll see that employment in the US is turning itself around, with payroll employment rising by […]
7 Companies in 7 Industries That Have Successfully Adapted to COVID-19
What does Business Agility truly mean? Failing fast, creating iterative strategies, delivering minimum viable products, and rapidly adapting to change and uncertainty. COVID-19 – and the unprecedented global disruption it has caused – has forced organizations of all sizes in all industries to deal with rapidly changing markets. In fact, 43% of small business owners […]
11 Ways You Can Inject Some Joy into your Videoconferencing
Working from home getting old? Here are some ways to make meetings with disparate teams a lot more fun, adding some laughter and interactive features to your latest videoconferencing zoom call. Have Fun with Backgrounds Teleport yourself to the leaning tower of Pisa, or lounge in the Oval Office or on stage at Carnegie Hall. […]
Can Working Remotely and Working Agile… Work, Together?
Want to meet for a coffee? … Oh right. Whether you think it’s a great idea or not, you’ve probably found yourself working as part of a remote team over the past few weeks, and none of us know exactly when it’s going to end. For those of us who thrive on the agile idea […]
Agile QuickTip: Using Multiple Choice Estimates
Agile QuickTip: Using Multiple Choice Estimates If you ever find that estimating tasks during sprint planning is painful and argumentative then multiple choice estimates might really help with your team’s planning. Most scrum teams follow a similar path during sprint planning. Team members will break user stories or backlog items down into individual implementation tasks […]
Agile QuickTip: Don’t Manage Cross-Team Dependencies – Eliminate Them
Don’t manage cross-team dependencies – eliminate them. One of the biggest challenges that a scrum team has to contend with when working in a multi-team, or scaled enterprise environment is managing cross-team dependencies. This is where your team is dependent on some other team to deliver something of their own, before you can make any […]
Agile QuickTip: User Stories and Product Ideas Should be Born on Index Cards
How Do You Capture Your User Stories and Product Ideas? Try Index Cards Here’s an out of the box idea that at first glance might seem counter-intuitive. I believe that user stories and product ideas should be born on index cards, rather than immediately logged electronically. Most Agile or scrum teams will use some kind […]
Agile QuickTip: Your Process Management Tool is not a Facilitation Tool
Process management tools are a common way to for a team to manage its work, it’s backlog, and its plans. But these are repositories of information, they are not likely the best way to create this information. Here’s an idea that might make work better. Most agile scrum teams will use some kind of digital […]